The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department serves roughly 850,000 citizens in the city of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County in North Carolina.

CMPD’s 1,849 sworn officers and 452 civilian employees cover a jurisdiction of 438 square miles. This includes eight officers, a sergeant and two civilian staff who manage the department’s Electronic Monitoring Unit, which was established in 2007. The unit monitors roughly 400 offenders each day.

Business Challenge

In response to a sharp increase in robberies and other violent crimes in 2006, CMPD launched a street crimes task force of 70 officers charged with enforcing a 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. curfew for known offenders.

The curfew was labor-intensive, costly and slow. Officers had to personally check, in pairs, on each offender under court-ordered supervision. The department needed a more efficient way to monitor these offenders.

Sierra Wireless Public Safety Solution

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